Lawsuit Accuses For-Profit College of Bias Against Female and Minority Students

By Julia Love

Virginia College, a for-profit institution with campuses in 11
mostly Southern states, is defending itself against a lawsuit
asserting that it misled students about the value of their degrees
and violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by strategically taking
aim at female and minority students in its advertising.

The lawsuit was filed by the Mississippi Center for Justice on
behalf of seven students who attended the college's location in
Jackson, Miss. The center's lawyers describe the